Research Catalog

Title

Primary succession on land / edited by J. Miles, D.W.H. Walton.

Publication

Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miles, John, 1941-
• Walton, D. W. H.

Description

viii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

• In the past, research into succession has concentrated on the widespread communities of grassland, herbfield and forest. However, the initial stages of a community are associated with algae, lichens and mosses, and despite their importance as primary colonizers, little attempt has been made to include the microbial community and its effects within the framework of primary succession.
• Accepting that it is at the microscopic level that any consideration of primary succession must start, this volume draws together microbiologists, ecologists, botanists and zoologists into a more coherent discussion of the early stages of community development. New techniques allow observation and experimentation at the microbial level, and the ecological opportunities offered by the Mount St Helens eruption have been exploited to shed more light on the processes of primary succession.

Series Statement

Special publication number 12 of the British Ecological Society

Uniform Title

Special publication ... of the British Ecological Society ; no. 12.

Subject

• Ecological succession > Congresses
• Ecology
• Ecology
• ecology
• Ecological succession
• Sukzession
• Ökologie
• Kongress
• Ecologie
• Opvolging
• Succession écologique > Congrès
• succession (écologie) > congrès

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers from the symposium held at the University of Liverpool during 5-7 Sept. 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Understanding the fundamentals of succession / A.D. Bradshaw -- Cryptoendolithic communities from hot and cold deserts: Speculation on microbial colonization and succession / J.R. Vestal -- Microbial processes and initial stabilization of fellfield soil / D.D. Wynn-Williams -- The effects of cryptogams on mineral substrates / D.W.H. Walton -- The role of bryophyte propagule banks in primary succession: Case-study of an Antarctic fellfield soil / R.I. Lewis Smith -- Mechanisms of primary succession on volcanoes: A view from Mount St Helens / R. del Moral -- Primary succession on the cone of Vesuvius / S. Mazzoleni and M. Ricciardi -- The colonization of strandlines / A.J. Davy and M.E. Figueroa -- Plant distribution patterns and primary succession on a glacier foreland: A comparative study of cryptogams and higher plants / H.J. Crouch -- Dispersal and establishment of tropical forest assemblages, Krakatoa, Indonesia / R.J. Whittaker and M.B. Bush.
• Physiological controls over plant establishment in primary succession / F.S. Chapin III -- The vascular plant pioneers of primary succession: Persistence and phenotypic plasticity / A.J. Gray -- The demography of clonal plants in relation to successional habitat change: The case of Spartina anglica / J.D. Thompson, T. McNeilly and A.J. Gray -- The role of nitrogen fixation in primary succession on land / J.I. Sprent -- Primary succession on man-made wastes: The importance of resource acquisition / R.H. Marrs and A.D. Bradshaw -- Nitrogen fixers and species replacements in primary succession / L.R. Walker -- Soil organisms in coastal foredunes involved in degeneration of Ammophila arenaria / W.H. van der Putten -- Primary succession on land: Community development and wildlife conservation / M.B. Usher -- Primary succession revisited / J. Miles and D.W.H. Walton.

ISBN

• 0632035471
• 9780632035472

LCCN

92035652

OCLC

• ocm26853472
• 26853472
• SCSB-2038992

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library